Reimagined: Indian gods with dark skin (can we stop our obsession with white skin?)
January 13, 2018 2018-01-13 12:24Reimagined: Indian gods with dark skin (can we stop our obsession with white skin?)
Reimagined: Indian gods with dark skin (can we stop our obsession with white skin?)
By depicting Gods we revere as dark-skinned, this initiative aims to celebrate a different view of their divinity, serenity and all pervasive beauty by going beyond perceptions.
Dark is not just beautiful, but divine.
Photographer Nilesh Nil (and the crew) has re-imagined Indian gods.
No, not the ‘white skin’ gods.
In darker skin.
And is questioning our obsession with white skins.
Take a look.
Goddess Lakshmi
Goddess Saraswati
Lord Shiva
Dark is Divine: Lord Subrahmanya
Sita
Lord Krishna
Comments (2)
Adhiraja
Thank you, Nilesh Nil and his crew have done a great job in portraying our mythical figures from a new, much-needed perspctive. The image of the enigmatic little boy as Lord Krishna, with his rich brown skin tone, should be popularised in media, this is the true depiction, not the white-washed pictures we see currently. Please share this so more people will open their eyes to the richness and divinity of dark colour, especially important for little brown kids.
Bharathi
dude , all South Indian Gods indeed Black ALREADY!!! so lets talk about discrimination.. 😀